Bombshell new vid shows Jay Slater at packed Tenerife rave just hours before he vanished as search enters fourth night
BOMBSHELL new footage shows missing Jay Slater at a rave hours before he went missing in Tenerife.
The 19-year-old can be seen walking through a club’s packed dance floor with sunglasses propped on his head as music blares out.
Lancashire teen Jay flew out to the holiday island with two friends for the NRG festival.
He went to the closing night Sunday with his pals, but left with two men he met that evening.
The next morning he called friend Lucy Law to tell her his phone was about to die and he was stranded in the middle of nowhere.
Jay has not been heard from or seen since, with search crews desperately hunting around the clock for the apprentice bricklayer.
Now footage, which is being shared widely on social media, has emerged from the rave showing Jay wandering through a sea of clubbers – all in their teens or 20s.
Andy Watson, the long-term partner of Jay’s mum, confirmed to The Sun that it is the missing teen in the clip.
Jay’s best friend Lucy – the last person he spoke to on the phone – has now implored British cops to get involved in the search as precious hours tick by.
She told the Mirror: “We need British police here. I just want to find my mate. He’s been missing three days. It’s not looking good now.
“We feel as though it’s down to us to find him and that we’re doing more than the police.”
Lucy said the two men Jay left the club with Sunday night have since left the country.
“They need to be questioned by British police,” she said.
It comes as…
- Jay, 19, was first reported missing on Monday after vanishing on his way home from a rave the night before
- Mum Debbie was told by cops at 2am on Tuesday to catch the first flight to Tenerife
- A Coronation Street star with a connection to Jay’s family published an appeal for help to find him
- Jay’s posted a Snapchat the night before he vanished showing him smiling with friends
- His friend Lucy described the teen’s disappearance as “suspicious and weird” as cops vowed to keep an “open mind”
- Jay’s mum was sent a message saying “kiss goodbye to your son” amid family fears he’s been kidnapped
- She gave a tearful plea last night and said “I just want my baby back”
- His family have endured days of bogus theories and sick messages from trolls
- Cops searched the teen’s hotel room in Tenerife for clues on Wednesday
At around 7.30am on Monday – an hour before he phoned Lucy – Jay posted a Snapchat of a hand holding a cigarette.
A Snapchat video posted the night before showed him laughing with mates.
Meanwhile Jay’s desperate mum broke down in tears as she pleaded with anyone holding her son to “let him go”.
Debbie Duncan – who has flown out to the island – is worried her son has been taken against his will.
She told the Mail: “If anyone does have him, just let him go, he’s not a bad person, maybe he’s got in with some strangers who’ve befriended him.
“I’m not stupid, I’ve been to Tenerife before, I’ve worked abroad myself and I gave him warnings, I just think if anyone has got him let him go, he’s not a bad person.”
Debbie said yesterday Jay was on his first holiday abroad with friends – and wasn’t a big drinker back home.
Debbie told the BBC: “I’ve not slept at all, it’s like it’s not real.
“It was his first holiday abroad with his friends and I was encouraging him to go, I said, ‘You will have a great time’.
“He’s not really a drinker is Jay but he had been drinking shorts and spirits that night.
“Everyone loves being in his company, and he was having a laugh with these guys.
“He wouldn’t have seen the danger, he didn’t have his wits about him, he just wanted to go and have fun.”
Around 15 family and friends have flown out to help – with cops, firefighters, sniffer dogs, drones and helicopters all scouring the hills where he was last seen.
Police briefly moved their search to the other side island on Wednesday after a reported sighting came in.
Mountain rescue crews left the hills where Jay vanished and started scouring the south of the island.
But the huge search operation shifted back near the village of Masca in northwestern Tenerife after the report turned out to be false.
Timeline of Jay Slater’s disappearance
By Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
SUNDAY JUNE 16 – MONDAY 17
Jay goes to a rave at the 2024 NRG music festival in Tenerife, around Arona on the south of the island
8.35pm – Jay posts a smiling Snapchat video of him laughing with friends
He leaves the rave with two men he met that day and is driven back to their accommodation across the island
MONDAY 17
7.30am – Jay posts a Snapchat of a hand holding a cigarette in the area where the accommodation was – near the rural de Teno Park on the north of the island
8.30am – Jay calls his friend Lucy Law and tells her he missed a bus, had one per cent of battery left on his phone and was stuck in the “middle of nowhere”
9am – A missing persons report is filed and the search for Jay begins
TUESDAY 18
2am – Police knock on the door of Jay’s mum Debbie Duncan’s home and tell her to catch the first flight out to Tenerife
7am – She flies out from Manchester Airport alongside her son Zak to help with the search
Debbie is sent a Snapchat message saying “Kiss goodbye to your boy, you’re never going to see him again, he owes me a lot of money.”
WEDNESDAY 19
12.30pm – Police move the search to the south of the island briefly after a false sighting
Cops search his hotel room for clues as his mum says there was “nothing untoward there”
Debbie gives a heart-wrenching interview where she shares fears he has been “taken” and says “I just want my baby back”
THURSDAY 20
Cops begin day four of the massive search for Jay